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BlizzCon 2009: In Pictures

This is it folks, my last remaining coverage from this year's BlizzCon.  May I present to you the show in picture form - with captions!  Enjoy.
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The opening madness & SWAG.

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New and retuned leveling territories.

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Upcoming changes to The Barrens.

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Raid map, Uldum concept layout and art.

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Extended universe cases for Blizzard's titles.

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New racials and secondary profession's UI screen.

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New Rated BG queuing system & UI screen.

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Path of the Titan system and applicable changes to Glyph and talent trees.

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More raid layouts and planning.

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The first mocks up before they begin adding environmental art.

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Scripting, placement, pathing & spell tools.  Notice the Deep Breath possibility.

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Icecrown Citadel layout!

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Cataclysm raid layout, including The Firelands (Ragnaros) concept art.

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I beat Blizzard to announcing the secret guest - the company was not happy about that.  Apparently I type faster than whoever was manning the keyboard for them.

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Statues (Queen of Blades ftw) and a lot of computers!

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BlizzCon 2009's retro arcade.  Rock n' Roll Racing!

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Art, art and more art.  Sheep is dedicated to Treznor.

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So Long Anaheim!

Reader Comments (9)

Interesting shots there. I like the new leveling zone changes, I must've missed that on the stream. WPL at 40? That'll be weird.
And god I hope silithus isn't part of the major 55-60 plan. That area always sucked.

August 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRikaku

I bet Sili will have a good chunk to do with the new leveling. They did say that vanilla factions will play a big role in the x-pac. remember Silithus is loaded with two type of mobs that cataclysm is all about, elementals and twlight's hammer

August 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterShala

This is going to be start from scratch for the add-on developers

August 31, 2009 | Unregistered Commentertess

These are some great pics. I hope i will be able to go next year. That is if the tickets wont sell out in 52 seconds(which will probably happen anyway). lol

August 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterNaberian

Shala:
Yeah, I just hope there's other leveling options. I remember being there during the AQ stuff and I never want to be there again.

Maybe with the revamp, maybe it'll suck less. ;)

August 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRikaku

Where are all the videos, I know Juggy has been streaming; but where is everyone else?

August 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMaritt

Rock n' Roll Racing! I loved that game :-D

August 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterEventime

o god. i can't wait to be a Titan, so to speak! damn 10 extra glyphs. and the talents look kinda neat too. but i wish they had guild talent calculators or at least a full overview of the talents so we can decide which ones would be good for us

August 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJessiness

yea i agree with maritt were is all the new content is that totally rad show takeing up to much time lets see some new content

September 1, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterleldon coffey

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